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Beginning 1 September, we will need to geoblock Mississippi IPs

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295 points AndrewDucker | 1 comments | 27 Aug 25 20:03 UTC | HN request time: 0.223s | source
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mostlysimilar ◴[27 Aug 25 21:20 UTC] No.45045443[source]▶
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Walker_Montgomery_Protecti...

> However, it doesn't apply to news sources, online games or the content that is be made is by the service itself or is an application website.

What is an "application website"? I can't seem to find how they're defining that.

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sebastiennight ◴[27 Aug 25 21:28 UTC] No.45045510[source]▶
Yeah the Wikipedia explanation has faulty grammar. I couldn't figure it out either.

My understanding is that this is similar to the law the UK passed recently except instead of verifying age of users for "adult" content, every platform needs to verify (and log) age of all users for all content?

It can't possibly be that ridiculous.

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1. mostlysimilar ◴[27 Aug 25 22:42 UTC] No.45046229[source]▶
It's Mississippi. Least educated state in the US. Not surprising the elected officials didn't think this one through.